Conflict Resolution Youth Summit

​ABOUT

July 16th - 20th, 2018 | 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

The program is offered by the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, a preeminent leader in innovative teaching, cutting-edge research and engaged practice. ​Delve into today’s toughest problems this summer at the Conflict Resolution Youth Summit (CRYS). The CR Youth Summit is a summer program for high school students in the District Metropolitan area that explores:​​

Social and Political Action

Global Engagement

Justice & Reconciliation

Collaborative Leadership

Interpersonal Dynamics

Participants will learn through simulation labs, field trips, workshops, and by engaging with experts in the field. Students will develop skills in leadership, problem-solving, effective communication, and cross cultural awareness.

COST

Cost: (includes lunch/snacks) $400by May 1st. $425 after May 1st. This cost does not include transportation to and from the GMU Campus.

Qualification

Rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniorsInterest in ​leadership, social justice, and community engagement

FIELD Trips

Left to Right ( National Mall, National Museum of African American History and Culture, United States Institute of Peace)

Meet our staff

Mara Schoeny, Executive Director Mara Schoeny is an associate professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and the Director of the School's Graduate Certificate and Undergraduate Program. She teaches courses in research and evaluation methods, practice skills and the integration of inter-disciplinary approaches to conflict analysis and resolution. She was a 1998 USIA Visiting Fellow in the Curriculum Development Exchange Program, in residence at Yerevan State University, Armenia. As part of the grant she developed and taught simulation courses for undergraduate and master’s level sociology and social work students in family, organizational, political and community conflict. She is a former youth camp director with experience in traditional camp settings as well as dialogue and co-existence camps for youth from conflict areas. Her research and practice interests include nonviolence, education and training and dialogue processes.

Lisa Shaw, Director of Student Services and Field ExperienceLisa E. Shaw is the Director of Student Services and Field Experience and an Administrative Faculty member with the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR) at George Mason University. She has been instrumental in the institution and growth of the S-CAR Undergraduate Program as well as the Mason’s Peer Mediation Partners, a partnership between Mason students and peer mediators at local area middle schools and high schools focusing on the development of conflict resolution skills. She co-developed and co-facilitated the Post Conflict Peace Building Field Experience in Liberia, and currently facilitates the Transitional Justice Field Experience in Colombia. She is also responsible for the internship program at S-CAR, as well as the Master's International and dual-degree Master of Social Work and Master of Conflict Analysis and Resolution program. Ms. Shaw has twenty years of experience in experiential education and community-based programs at the international, national, and local levels. Her experience includes education, environmental stewardship and wildland firefighting as an inaugural member of Americorps-NCC, creating curricula and traveling nature trunks for the Chattahoochee Nature Center, teaching for High Touch-High Tech, a hands-on learning program focused on strengthening national science standards, and directing primary and secondary after-school and summer programs for the City of Decatur Recreation Department. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Philosophy, and Environmental Science at Regis University in Denver, Colorado and received a Master of Science degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution in Arlington, Virginia.

George Mason University is Virginia’s largest public research university. Located near Washington, D.C., Mason enrolls 35,000 students from 130 countries and all 50 states. Mason has grown rapidly over the past half-century and is recognized for its innovation and entrepreneurship, remarkable diversity and commitment to accessibility.

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